August 26th : Bordeaux, France Chateau Palmer - Margaux With our first day in Bordeaux in the books, we looked forward to our second day immensely. The town and region is unlike the hustle and bustle of Paris and we found the people to be quite friendly, the food to be scrumptious and the climate to be refreshing. For our second day, we were to enjoy superlative weather – sunny with beautiful blue skies – and an easy temperature in the mid 20s (Celsius).  Because we had maximized... [More]

August 25th : Bordeaux, France We’re going to cover the overview of what we did, then delve into details about the wine, the region and the cuisine.  So stay tuned, we’ve lots of ground to cover! We woke early (6:30 am) as we had to use the Metro to transit from Montreuil to Paris’ Montparnesse train station in order to catch a country train (high speed express train) to St Jean station in Bordeaux, which is in the Aquitania region (south west France), on the bank of the river Gironde. I... [More]